Treaties and Territories
Treaty that ended the Texas Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Velasco?
The belief that Americans had the God-given right to expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Battle that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Battle for Mexico City/ The Capture
Old Mexico City?
The government assigned large amounts of land to these "contractors" in order for them to recruit settlers and establish colonies.
What are empresarios?
American diplomat who was sent by President Polk to negotiate with Mexico about boundary and Texas.
Who is John Slidell?
Name of the territory after the Texas Revolution.
What is the Republic of Texas/Lone Star Republic
The first major trail that began as a commercial and trade route which led from Independence, Missouri to the town of Santa Fe, the capital of Spanish New Mexico.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
In, California, a small group of Americans revolted against Mexican forces.
What is the Bear Flag Revolt?
Texans of Mexican heritage.
What are Tejanos?
General that led the American army to the Rio Grande at the beginning of the Mexican-American War.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
Treaty that ended Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The mass migration to California of miners and business people who made money off the miners.
What is the California Gold Rush?
Ending battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
Small Spanish settlements designed to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and loyal Spanish subjects.
What is the Mission System?
Famous battle cry.
What is "Remember the Alamo"?
Land acquired by the U.S. after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Mexican Cession?
A 1,300 mile trail that led to the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah and used by some 16,000 Mormons.
What is the Mormon Trail?
War that started over boundary dispute.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Forts, run by soldiers who were charged with protecting the missions.
What is a presidio?
The expansionist president who was in office during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
States that eventually formed from the Mexican Cession Territory.
What are Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming?
Relays of young riders on fast horses that provided a somewhat faster mailing service between Missouri and California.
What is the Pony Express?
The Battle of Gonzales.
What is the first battle of the Texas Revolution?
People willing to invest money hoping to make profit.
What are entrepreneurs?
2,000 mile trail stretched from Independence, Missouri, to the rich farming lands of Willamette Valley
What is the Oregon Trail?